Swing from the 1912 to 1916 elections. Woodrow Wilson (D) was elected in 1912 in a 4-way race, beating Taft (R) by 19 pts (only beat Teddy Roosevelt, who ran as a Progressive, by 14 pts, but this map is looking at the change in the D-R margin) then was re-elected in 1916 by 3 pts 
Here is the same map in "trend" form, so changes are RELATIVE to the 15.5 pt swing towards the GOP in the national vote. The South & most of the West trended towards Wilson, tho in CA many voters who had went for TR in 1912 returned to the GOP in 1916, as did many Midwesterners:
Here are the actual 1912 & 1916 election by county. 1912 was very chaotic, with Roosevelt (Progressive, green) winning many counties & even a few counties being won by Eugene Debs (Socialist, orange). Most of the counties won by Roosevelt went back to the GOP & Hughes (R) in 1916
The biggest GOP swing was in Alpine County CA, which went from a 43-10 Wilson (D) margin over Taft (R) in 1912 (Roosevelt [P] won the county with 45%) to a 72-27 Hughes (R) win over Wilson in 1911. Roosevelt endorsed Hughes in 1916, so most of his CA voters returned to the GOP:
The biggest Dem swing was in Garfield County UT, which went from 63-23 Taft (R) in 1912 to 61-38 Wilson (D) in 1916. Utah saw a big swing towards Wilson, as his progressive policies were popular there & the LDS leadership (which had supported Taft in 1912) stayed neutral in 1916:
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